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Which of the following best describes the overall structure of 'Mating'?
Q02of 10
In the second stanza, the drake is compared to Abraham primarily to suggest that the drake
Q03of 10
The phrase 'beech-green / spurts / Like a storm of emerald snow' is an example of which poetic technique?
Q04of 10
What is the dominant tone of the poem's final three stanzas?
Q05of 10
Which figure of speech best describes the sun being called a 'quickening, masculine gleam' that 'begets the year in us'?
Q06of 10
The seven toads that 'meet in the dusk to share / The darkness that interweaves' function chiefly to
Q07of 10
In the seventh stanza, Lawrence suggests that Earth sends 'fine yellow beams' to 'virgin' stars in order to
Q08of 10
The word 'thrall' in the sixth stanza most nearly means
Q09of 10
According to the poem, what is the speaker's lover apparently doing in the fifth stanza?
Q10of 10
Which statement most accurately summarises the speaker's moral argument in the final stanza?
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